Vegetable Staticks Or An Account Of Some Statical Experiments On The Sap In Vegetables 1727 I

by Stephen Hales

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First edition

“Hales’s work marked the greatest advance in the physiology of circulation between Harvey and the introduction of the mercury manometer and other instruments for the measurement of blood pressure by J.L.M. Poiseuille in 1828.” – John Carter and Percy H. Muir, PMM 189 FIRST EDITION AND FIRST COMPLETE TWO-VOLUME EDITION OF LANDMARK STUDIES ON CIRCULATION IN PLANTS AND HUMANS PMM 189 . First

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